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Addon ID: 26037

Addon Version: 0.11.1

Expansion: 1.60

Upload date: Oct 06, 2026

Last Updated: Oct 06, 2026

Downloads: Less than 100

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Forever

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HatedGaming Creator

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CONTESTED

The Contested Zones Are At War Again

"When you need to be Rdy, be Hated."
Developed by Rdy, Guild Leader of Hated Gaming

🔍 About the Addon

Contested puts the Alliance and the Horde back at war over the open world, on retail WoW and on WoW Forever. You fight over real places like The Crossroads, Astranaar, Southshore and Darkshire. Every capture point you hold pushes your faction's control of the zone, and the side that holds the most zones takes the front.

It is also a full RP-PvP addon. Turn on RP Mode and your group leader sends the raid on story adventures written around Warcraft lore. You ride out with orders, play a scene in the world, then fight for a real capture point to find out how the chapter ends. A lore library covering all 22 zones ships inside the addon, so whoever leads always knows the history of the ground they are standing on.

Nobody can cheat the scoreboard. A capture or a kill only counts when your own game saw it happen, or when enough independent, verified players saw it too. A crafted addon message can't move the war.

Perfect for:

RP-PvP guilds and raid leaders who want a story to lead their people into
World PvP groups looking for something worth fighting over
Guilds that want their name on the standings
Levelers who'd like their trip through the Barrens to matter to their faction

📜 RP Mode: Stories That End in a Real Fight

RP Mode is optional and works on both clients. Turn it on with /contest rp and open the Adventure panel with /contest adventure.

How a chapter plays

The group leader begins a chain. Everyone in the group with RP Mode on gets the orders and reads along.
You travel to the scene. The story asks for things done in the world: reach a place, speak with a named NPC, kneel or salute, say a line aloud, gather the group, keep watch.
Then comes the hold. Three of your group stand on the capture point for 180 seconds while the story plays out on screen.
The other faction decides the ending. Hold the point and the story moves on to its next chapter. Lose it and the chain goes back to the start.

The chains

Zone	Chain	The story
The Barrens	False Colours	Two crews are killing each other on Ratchet's neutral docks, and each swears the other started it.
Hillsbrad Foothills	The Quiet Hand	Southshore and Tarren Mill bleed each other over the supply roads while somebody else profits.
Ashenvale	The Sleepers	Something is being done to the druids asleep in the barrow dens of Dor'Danil.
Stranglethorn Vale	The Colonel's Share	Colonel Kurzen holds his compound against everyone, and supplies are vanishing on every trail.
Eastern Plaguelands	The Long Watch	Four ruined scout towers, the Argent Dawn in the middle, and both factions set on holding them.

Every chain is written twice, once for the Alliance and once for the Horde, so each side gets its own story over the same ground. That makes ten chains of two or three chapters each, and they start again with the weekly reset.

On WoW Forever the stories follow your level. A chain is offered once its zone starts no more than 5 levels above you, and lower zones stay open at any level. On retail every chain is open.

Also in RP Mode

Random run: the addon picks one of 15 story points where your side is needed and writes the trip there as a short adventure.
Story on screen: orders, arrivals and the hold itself are narrated as they happen, and your map pin follows the next step.
Journal: /contest journal reads back where you have been and how it ended.
Ranks nobody can fake: Wayfarer, Pathfinder and Chronicler are granted from signed, witnessed captures. You cannot claim one for yourself.

📚 Packed With Warcraft Lore

Leading an RP raid is easier when you know what you are talking about, so Contested carries its own lore library.

🎭 Leader's Notes	🗺️ Zone Lore	⚔️ Factions and History
• The lore behind the chain you are leading • Who is who among the NPCs you meet • What is established lore and what the story adds • Talking points for every chapter	• All 22 contested zones • Every capture point and the places around it • The people, the old stories and the older history • What changed after Classic, for retail players	• Alliance and Horde as they stood in Classic • The third parties: who stays neutral and why • The First, Second and Third Wars • Where those wars touch the zones you fight over

The library holds thousands of entries, checked against in-game quest text and Blizzard's own published lore. The group leader opens it with the Lore button on the Adventure panel or /contest lore.

The stories are set in the Classic era. Retail zones have changed since the Cataclysm, so on retail the leader's notes also say what is different today.

🎯 Key Features Dashboard

⚔️ Zone Battles	🧭 Layers and Scouting	📋 Group Board
• 54 capture points across 22 classic contested zones • Hold a point with your group to capture it, hold most of a zone's points to own it • A HUD shows capture progress while you stand on a point	• Every point is held per layer, and busy layers count the most • Out on your own? Watch the enemy hold a point and your side learns they took it • Hot layers show where your side is losing, so you know where to go	• List yourself as looking for a group, or recruit players for yours • Host a layer so other groups can shift onto it • Shift here button on hot layers when a host is listed there

👥 Saved Teams and Friends	🏆 Standings	🛡️ Can't Be Faked
• Save your group or add players by name, up to 10 teams • Invite a whole team in one click, it turns into a raid when it fills • Contested friends stay trusted every week and pass news across realms and factions	• Alliance against Horde • Click a side for its guilds, click a guild for its best players • Log in and catch up on captures and kills you missed	• Captures count only when players were really standing there • Every message is signed and checked, fakes are thrown out • Security tab and a crypto self-check at login show it's working

📍 Map and Minimap	👁️ Group Check	📖 Built-In Guide
• Capture points drawn on the world map and minimap in their holder's colour • Pin any point with one click • Optional location sharing between players who both turn it on	• See who in your party or raid runs Contested, and which version • `/contest check` or the button on the Team tab	• A short welcome guide on first login • How to button any time after: capturing, layers, scouting, teams and RP Mode

🌍 Retail and WoW Forever

	Retail	WoW Forever
Who is in the war	War Mode off and flagged for PvP. You fight on your own realm's shards instead of chasing people across thousands of War Mode layers.	Everyone on the PvP ruleset. On the PvE ruleset, anyone flagged for PvP.
Separate wars	Standings per region and per connected realm group.	PvP, PvE, Hardcore and RP rulesets each fight their own war.
RP Mode	Every chain open. Leader's notes say what has changed since Classic.	Chains open by level. A few story steps use NPCs that only exist here.
Community	US region: join the open cross-faction Contested community from the Peers tab to find groups and opponents.	The Contested channel, your guild and your friends.

A strip along the bottom of the window always says whether you are in the war, and what is missing if you are not.

🗺️ The Fronts

Front	Zones
🌾 Early Front (10-30)	The Barrens, Darkshore, Redridge Mountains, Stonetalon Mountains, Ashenvale, Hillsbrad Foothills, Duskwood, Wetlands
⛰️ Mid Front (30-50)	Stranglethorn Vale, Arathi Highlands, Thousand Needles, Desolace, Tanaris, Feralas, Searing Gorge
🔥 Endgame Front (50-60)	Felwood, Blasted Lands, Blackrock Mountain, Winterspring, Silithus, Western Plaguelands, Eastern Plaguelands

All three fronts are live. Level ranges are a guide for the war: any level can fight for any zone.

🎛️ Slash Commands

Command	Functionality
`/contest`	Opens or closes the Contested window.
`/contest guide`	Opens the welcome and how-to guide.
`/contest rp`	Turns RP Mode on or off.
`/contest adventure`	Opens the Adventure panel.
`/contest journal`	Reads back your past adventures.
`/contest lore`	Leader's notes and the lore library. Add `zones`, `factions` or `history`.
`/contest board`	Opens the group board.
`/contest teams`	Opens your saved teams.
`/contest team invite`	Invites everyone on your current team. Also `save`, `add`, `remove`, `new`, `rename` and `list`.
`/contest check`	Shows who in your group is running Contested.
`/contest friend add <name>`	Adds a Contested friend. Also `accept`, `remove` and `list`.
`/contest community`	Retail: join the Contested community.
`/contest share`	Shares your map position with other players who share theirs.
`/contest where`	Shows your map, layer and the capture points around you.
`/contest hud`	Shows or hides the zone battle HUD.
`/contest security`	Opens the Security tab.

📊 Pro-Tips

🤝 Bring two friends

A capture only counts when three players from the same group hold the point together, for 180 seconds. No group yet? Open the Board, tick List me, and someone will pick you up. WoW is meant to be played with friends!

🎭 Lead the scene

Open the leader's notes before you begin a chain. They tell you who the NPCs are and what really happened in the lore, so you can speak to it in your own words while the group plays the scene.

👀 Check on your points